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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canal Zone the voice on the bullhorn of the transport General Harry Taylor blared: "Now hear this! Watch the shadow of the ship." Then the Taylor's skipper, Captain Leonard B. Jaudon, added: "As it turns toward New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Peace Shock | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

Normally the screen shows the size but not the exact shape of the detected object. Occasionally it may get an effect of almost photographic sharpness (the screen in Artzybasheff's drawing, though an exaggerated animation, is based on a ''shadow effect" actually caught in one freakish radar picture of a plane a couple of hundred yards away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Radar | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

Cascade to Tashkent. War or no war, the July 9 eclipse was one of the best observed in history. The moon's shadow, falling on the earth at 6:14 a.m. at Cascade, Idaho, raced at 47 miles a minute across Montana, Canada, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, disappearing after just two hours and 27 minutes at Tashkent, in Turkestan (see diagram). The total eclipse followed a very narrow path (maximum width: 58 miles, in Greenland), but it covered a long stretch of land area. One of the most elaborately equipped expeditions (a Harvard-led group at Bredenbury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Shadow Watchers | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

...student in Professor Stewart's party, observing from a plane at 9,000 feet, noticed an effect never seen before: a 15-mile-wide trail of condensed water vapor in the moon's shadow, apparently resulting from the sudden cooling of the earth's atmosphere. In England, physicists used radar to observe stratospheric electrical effects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Shadow Watchers | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

...vastly hotter than the sun itself (6,000°). Scientists hope that study of the photographs and other observations made last week will tell them more about the corona, the deflection of stars' light rays by the sun, the moon's "falling shadow" (which Professor Stewart's party was in a particularly good position to observe, because it saw the eclipse very soon after sunrise, low on the horizon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Shadow Watchers | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

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